The Witcher vs Dragon Age

Jezcentral said:
Although I enjoyed "The Fade", you're not the only one who didn't. There is a mod that allows you to get past it. It's called "Skip The Fade". It does exactly what it says on the tin, and still gives you all the bonuses you could have picked up whilst you were in there. :)

http://www.dragonagenexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=816

That'll get you back to the game As It Should Be Played. :)
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Interesting, thanks for that i'll have a look. How far into the game am I at this point?
 
I finished The Witcher and DAO.

DAO is pretty good, but very generic and has pretty boring combat - I can see how someone would get bored by it. I had to force myself a little to actually finish it.

The Witcher is the best RPG since Vampire Bloodlines and one of the best games ever made - I played that two weeks straights, even skipping school :D

It is very very atmospheric, has great looking fun combat+alchemy, fun characters.

Plus, I love the 7 books (re-reading them now actually, in preparation for my second Witcher playthrough and then Witcher 2) and they stayed very true to them.
 
I don't get the love for The Witcher, after coming in from Oblivon, from the 2 hrs i played the combat was awful and from what i hear is very very lineiner
 
Relentless81 said:
Interesting, thanks for that i'll have a look. How far into the game am I at this point?
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You are at the Tower, one of the three main missions.

If you have done the other two (Dwarves' Kingdom and Elves' Forest) then you are very close to the last section. If you still have to do them, then you have quite a way to go!

P.S. If you don't like the combat, turn it to easy, and enjoy the story. That's what I did. I'll try harder combat another time. At the moment, I'm just enjoying playing the game as a particlar type of person. I played the first time as me, and the second as a religious zealot. Next will be a psychotic elf who hates humans, and the one after that will be a bunny-boiling lesbian assassin. :)
 
Both different really. One is party based the other a premade protagonist. But I enjoyed them both. Probably The Witcher shades it for me as the setting is a bit bit more grim, has more of an edge. Can't wait for TW2.
 
I hated The Witcher, the control system is the most clunky unfriendly thing I've had a misfortune to use in a long while. Got about 2 hours in and was fed up with it.
 
I tried to like The Witcher. In fact, I went back to it three times in an attempt to enjoy it. Loved the atmosphere, great characters, but the combat and controls were so awful and counter intuitive that I just gave up. Completely game breaking.

Dragon Age on the other hand is one of the best games I have ever played, period. A near flawless game in my opinion.
 
I tried to get back in DA again last night but i'm still stuck in that Dream World its driving me mad I just want to get out! I cant turn into a mouse and a fireman blokey, what do I do next!?

I am going to get The Witcher but i'm going to finish DA first, I like it its just this Dream World thing is really spoiling it :(
 
Use the fireman blokey to walk through walls of fire, and the mouse to get through the mouseholes in some rooms, basically. Doing that opens up further areas and eventually (after quite a while I'm afraid) you get to face the demon dude who put you to sleep in the first place.

Edit - also, depending on your choices, you get to visit the fade again later. Yay!
 
robgmun said:
I don't get the love for The Witcher, after coming in from Oblivon, from the 2 hrs i played the combat was awful and from what i hear is very very lineiner
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The combat is a pain at first, but you do get used to it eventually. As for linear... Well, yes, though during the various chapters you're pretty much free to do things in whatever order you want (or not at all in the case of the sub-plots). Linear, for me, is something like HL2, where you were nearly always in a very tightly controlled corridor.

FWIW I tried to like Oblivion, but it bored me to tears. That's why I held off buying Fallout3 for so long, because it sounded like Sci-Fi Oblivion. Generally I need a good narrative thread to drag me through dull bits. Otherwise, as in Oblivion, I just lose the will to live. :-) Witcher certainly gave me the narrative incentive to keep going.

As I said in an earlier post, one man's meat is another man's murder. You can never really be sure whether you'll enjoy something as much as someone else. That's why these days I buy very little at anything like full price. I buy more games than I used to, but at offer prices (especailly via the various download services) which mean I don't care if I make a mistake.

Andrew McP
 
Sleepery said:
Use the fireman blokey to walk through walls of fire, and the mouse to get through the mouseholes in some rooms, basically. Doing that opens up further areas and eventually (after quite a while I'm afraid) you get to face the demon dude who put you to sleep in the first place.

Edit - also, depending on your choices, you get to visit the fade again later. Yay!
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I've doing that for ages :(

FML :(
 
the witcher, a very interesting world, good characters, good story, combat is abit bleh but its fun when he pulls off combos and lots of blood lol
dragonage is good too, story's alittle slow and kinda predictable i'd say. combat is kinda standard with a few changes to it(tactics,spells combo's etc)

i'd say with all current rpgs i tend to forget about them after a full day or 2 of playing and font play them again for ages and i tend to restart my characters because i feel lost in my objectives.
 
Andrew_McP said:
FWIW I tried to like Oblivion, but it bored me to tears. That's why I held off buying Fallout3 for so long, because it sounded like Sci-Fi Oblivion. Generally I need a good narrative thread to drag me through dull bits. Otherwise, as in Oblivion, I just lose the will to live. :-) Witcher certainly gave me the narrative incentive to keep going.
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Exactly this, I gave up on Oblivion after less than 10 hours, it was just too open. I managed about 30 from FO3, but the lack of direction eventually got to me as well.

I much prefer a somewhat linear narrative to free-roaming sandbox style game, I like to have a goal/purpose rather than running around looking for 'achievements' to unlock.
 
Relentless81 said:
I've doing that for ages :(

FML :(
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Google a walkthrough, there must be loads by now that will show you exactly where to go, although I don't remember it being that hard to navigate once I realised that you can't go all the way through one level at a time, but need to shift between them as you unlock the different forms to progress.
 
TomHark said:
Google a walkthrough, there must be loads by now that will show you exactly where to go, although I don't remember it being that hard to navigate once I realised that you can't go all the way through one level at a time, but need to shift between them as you unlock the different forms to progress.
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I dont like doing that and I realised you cant progress normally and you have to flick between using different forms but I got stuck after the fireman blokey. I'll try again tonight and if its a no go i'll get my google on.
 
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